Robbert Flick
Robbert Flick was born in 1939 in Amersfoot, Holland and moved to Canada after six years in Dutch West Indies. He began to explore photography extensively in 1963 while working in logging camps on Vancouver-Island. He has a BA from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and a MA and MFA from the Graduate School of the University of California he also studied with Robert Heinecken. He has received many fellowships and his work is found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. He taught photography at the University of Illinois and now teaches at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Robbert started out with grids devoted to urban streets, ocean water, and the rural Midwest. The views overlap or omit at varying intervals creating rhythms paced like film strips and sequences patterned like contact sheets. What I like is the simplicity of some of his pieces and his grid work they really are similar to contact sheet and the he positions some of them they almost create an image on their own.
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